United Nations, April 20 (RHC)-- The United Nations is calling on the Ivan Duque administration in Colombia to refrain from altering its peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).... More


Washington, April 20 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration has refused to allow prominent Palestinian human rights activist Omar Barghouti to enter the United States. Barghouti is co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS. ... More


Caracas, April 19 (RHC)-- President Nicolas Maduro has firmly rejected another set of illegal sanctions announced by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. The new measures are targetting the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).... More


Quito, April 19 (RHC)-- Ecuador's Attorney General's office will make a request to Interpol for the capture of ex-foreign minister under former President Rafael Correa, Ricardo Patiño, a vocal critic of the current government under President Lenin Moreno. He had recently left the country but Ecuadorean officials want him captured and held under preventative detention based on the charge of 'instigation' or incitement... More


Brasilia, April 19 (RHC)-- At the request of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security has authorized the deployment of personnel from the National Public Security Force for the upcoming April and May protests which are being organized by various sectors of society.... More


United Nations, April 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations envoy to Libya has warned of a “a widening conflagration” in the North African country amid a Saudi-backed push by strongman Khalifa Haftar to seize the capital Tripoli.... More


London, April 19 (RHC)-- U.S. social media giant Facebook has banned several high-profile far-right groups in Britain from its platforms for "engaging in hate and violence" against others.... More


Ramallah, April 19 (RHC)-- Israeli military forces have shot and critically injured a Palestinian student after skirmishes broke out between a group of young protesters and Israeli soldiers in the central part of the occupied West Bank.... More


Buenos Aires, April 18 (RHC)-- A group of Latin American social leaders headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel have signed a statement of international solidarity with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks who was arrested last week at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.... More


Mexico City, April 18 (RHC)-- Migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are moving from the southeast Mexican state of Chiapas towards the United States with hundreds of families in dire need of food and water.... More


Washington, April 18 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has issued the second veto of his presidency, blocking a congressional effort to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians and sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.... More


Washington, April 18 (RHC)-- U.S. Attorney General William Barr has issued an order that could keep thousands of asylum seekers locked up indefinitely. The order, a reversal of existing policy, would affect asylum seekers who enter into the country in between legal ports of entry, by barring immigration judges from granting bonds for their release.... More


Atlanta, April 18 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says Donald Trump has spoken with him about China because the current U.S. leader was worried that Beijing is outpacing the U.S. economically, saying America’s endless wars were helping China get ahead of the United States.... More


Brussels, April 18 (RHC)-- A group of former senior European politicians have signed a letter to the European Union that calls on the bloc to reject the so-called U.S. peace plan for the Middle East if it is one-sided and unfair to Palestinians.... More


Moscow, April 18 (RHC)-- Russia will provide strategic cooperation to the Venezuelan government to investigate several attacks against the National Energy Service (SEN), according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromoloto.... More


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